Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.

There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.